What are the most influential video games of the decade?

Two words. Fucking Bejeweled. I never play games but hours of my life are being sapped away by this time vampire. I hate it. Yet I love it. So I can tell you about the importance of lightning gems but beyond that I'm am amateur. Wired are a little more switched on about this sort of thing and they've compiled a list of the 15 most influential games of the decade.

And before we have a fight about whether the current decade ends this year or next, here's the top 10:

I still don't understand this fascination with The Sims. I personally find it to be a very boring series of game with nothing truly innovative added by every new installment. I do agree with Halo and Wii Sports but surely Deus Ex, Half Life and an MGS deserve a place in the top 10

I used to be a rabid gamesplayer in my youth (in the days of the Spectrum, on to the NES and beyond) then slowly but surely, real life ate away at game-playing time.
I LOVED the original Sims. Every man I've ever mentioned it to says "But its a girl's game". Hmph. If you wanted to be really sadistic you could just put your Sim in a tiny box room, no light or doors, and let them weep and pee themselves to death.
Thanks to HUKD, I recently my brother Fable II Game Of The Year Edition (Xbox 360), quite fancy getting into that. Love RPGs. The weirdest one I played right to the end was the N64 Mystical Ninja.

I think people on the wired forum especially seem to forget that the lists are supposed to be of INFLUENTIAL games, as in games that inspired future games, not a list of their favourites..
Deus Ex is an easy one.
Sims also.
Portal?
The Wii sports at least had an original control scheme, I suppose..
Halo love it or hate it did inspire many, many games attempting to cash in on the success, without it being
exactly the most original concept ever.
Half-life 2 probably deserved a place for the use of physics engine
MGS2 = MGS1 with slight improvements? How is that more influential than the first one?
Bioshock, while very good, offers little over System Shock, released in the 90's..

The only completely ridiculous game on that list is Metroid Prime. Yes, it may have been a good game, but did anybody actually care about it, and did it affect any other game made ever? Probably only Metroid Prime 2 and 3. Certainly not one of the most influential games of the decade.